1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1360+ words) Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful president, part of a larger and accelerating assertion of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (222+ words) Yet, despite this advance, Colombians elected right-wing lawyer and businessman Abelardo De La Espriella, whose nationalist and law-and-order platform marks a sharp contrast with the policies of outgoing President Gustavo Petro. The outcome suggests that even significant social and economic…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1221+ words) The women’s movement sprang into the world from 1960s and 1970s leftism, a leftism that was, not to put too fine a point on it, blatantly male supremacist. Men on the left back then generally regarded women’s liberation as bourgeois feminism – they…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (711+ words) Image by Lindsey LaMont. In 1994, at the age of 5, I became one of an estimated 63,000 children subjected to sexual abuse every year, what amounts to one in 9 girls and one in 20 boys. My abusers were Catholic priests in a diocese…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (617+ words) Trump and his MAGA followers are hardly going to forsake their standard mix of bigotry, anti-immigrant mania and other political toxins. Demagoguery fuels the Republican engine – and in the 11 months until the midterm elections, skullduggery to thwart democracy will accelerate…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1101+ words) Image by Floris Van Cauwelaert. The most insidious privatization of the 21st century isn’t material—it’s moral. The right to define “goodness”, once born of collective struggle, has been seized by elites who trade in humanitarian spectacle. Melinda Gates, María Corina…...